Neyasi Tillandsia
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21 of the Day, Summer of 499 A.V.
The Weft and Warp
Weaving lesson
The young Symenestra female sat on the silken cushion, fidgeting nervously. Today, she was to sit in on a lesson from the headmistress on weaving. Neyasi had already learned the crude basics of weaving, more or less, at home, but, her father had pulled some strings, and now here she sat, merely seven years of age, beside the much older students of the weaving school. Her ruby gaze switched to the loom in front of her, and she resisted the urge to touch it. I must not embarrass Father. She told herself, and so consorted to playing with her own pale fingers.
At last, the headmistress entered, and took her place in the center of the room, kneeling before her loom. She looked around, before putting her hands to the loom, and beginning to speak, capturing the rapt attention of every pupil in the room.
"Weaving is the most basic process in which two different sets of yarns or threads are interlaced with each other to form a fabric or cloth. One of these sets is called warp, which is the lengthwise yarn running from the back, to the front of the loom. The other set of crosswise yarns are the filling which are called the weft or the woof."
Neyasi put her hands to the loom, along with the other students, still watching the headmistress.
"Some of the primary motions to produce woven fabric are called shedding, picking, and beating-up. No, that does not mean to pummel someone near you in order to produce your cloth."
The headmistress's eyes landed on a pair of snickering young Symenestra who'd neglected to hold in their emotions. They fell silent.
"Shedding is a primary motion in weaving that does separation of warp threads, according to pattern, to allow for weft insertion or picking prior to beating. It is the mechanism that raises certain harnesses above the others. Yarns that pass through the heald eyes in those harnesses are raised above that are not controlled by the raised harnesses. In this way, a sheet of warp yarns is up, and a sheet of yarns is down. The space between two yarn sheets is called 'shed'. Shedding itself has different methods.
Open shedding is a method of forming a shed in which, between the insertion of one weft pick and the next, the only warp threads moved are those that are required to change position from the upper to the lower line of the shed, or vice versa."
21 of the Day, Summer of 499 A.V.
The Weft and Warp
Weaving lesson
The young Symenestra female sat on the silken cushion, fidgeting nervously. Today, she was to sit in on a lesson from the headmistress on weaving. Neyasi had already learned the crude basics of weaving, more or less, at home, but, her father had pulled some strings, and now here she sat, merely seven years of age, beside the much older students of the weaving school. Her ruby gaze switched to the loom in front of her, and she resisted the urge to touch it. I must not embarrass Father. She told herself, and so consorted to playing with her own pale fingers.
At last, the headmistress entered, and took her place in the center of the room, kneeling before her loom. She looked around, before putting her hands to the loom, and beginning to speak, capturing the rapt attention of every pupil in the room.
"Weaving is the most basic process in which two different sets of yarns or threads are interlaced with each other to form a fabric or cloth. One of these sets is called warp, which is the lengthwise yarn running from the back, to the front of the loom. The other set of crosswise yarns are the filling which are called the weft or the woof."
Neyasi put her hands to the loom, along with the other students, still watching the headmistress.
"Some of the primary motions to produce woven fabric are called shedding, picking, and beating-up. No, that does not mean to pummel someone near you in order to produce your cloth."
The headmistress's eyes landed on a pair of snickering young Symenestra who'd neglected to hold in their emotions. They fell silent.
"Shedding is a primary motion in weaving that does separation of warp threads, according to pattern, to allow for weft insertion or picking prior to beating. It is the mechanism that raises certain harnesses above the others. Yarns that pass through the heald eyes in those harnesses are raised above that are not controlled by the raised harnesses. In this way, a sheet of warp yarns is up, and a sheet of yarns is down. The space between two yarn sheets is called 'shed'. Shedding itself has different methods.
Open shedding is a method of forming a shed in which, between the insertion of one weft pick and the next, the only warp threads moved are those that are required to change position from the upper to the lower line of the shed, or vice versa."
